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Yar, it does
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I am now ready to grind out the Pokedex a second time to hunt Scarlet paradox shiny
Is that a recent change? I'm pretty sure it didn't used to work that way.
Having found no shinies during the entire game, I've now gotten two. Saw a shiny Maschiff last night and just booted the game up and immediately saw a shiny Mudsdale.
Posting when they are ready
It wasn't uncommon some generations ago. Competitive teams used to frequently have a 2 sweepers, 3 max, with the rest being tanks, healers, spikers, status setters, stat change clearers, etc. and this carried over into single player content like Battle Towers that tried to simulate competitive battles. I think it was one of the 3DS games that shifted things to sweeper heavy teams though I could be misremembering given that I now feel really old.
The raids have put the mechanical depth that kept a lot of hardcore gamers around more front and center by making it part of a cooperative gameplay mode and much more visible.
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I have two boxes of them ready right now.
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Anyway I have a bunch of no speeds of all 3 and a handful for no speed/no attack if that’s something anyone would be interested in.
God, I'm currently running around trying to catch a 0 atk iv Gimmighoul (it's can't breed because gamefreak hates us) and it is actually driving me insane.
Thankfully I'm pretty good for everything else, have a box that is just male 0 speed and 0 attack mons for every egg group, but min maxing this stupid gholdengho set might actually kill me
That thing is a dynamaxed pokemon in disguise.
Not how you want it to, no. On a technical level, how they do raids is that each pokemon has their HP multipled by an amount depending on the raid difficulty. But their base HP is still there in the code, and that's what Ruination checks. So it still hits, but it winds up being one of the least damaging moves you can bring to a raid.
And honestly, I've been having to actually think my moves and such by just playing with standard multiplayer ruleset (you know, Set switching, no repeated held items, no non-held items in battle). Nemona damn near took me out just now, it came down to last pokemon versus last pokemon and Squosh the Bellibolt on 30% HP left. I always play every pokemon game with these rules since Black, and honestly haven't been so close to wipes so often in any of the games before, seeing how Arven also did punch my clock when I took on him (though that was, admittedly, like eight levels ago) and I've been in trouble against other stuff before.
Plus, the great pokemon variety and bunch of really rad new pokemon is absolutely lovely. I always make a point of using as close to all new pokemon as I can manage and I haven't had so much trouble actually deciding who gets to be on the team since BW, I love so many of the new little goobers.
If this sticks the landing I'm pretty sure this is about to dethrone SuMo for my favorite Pokemon game.
A person named tikivk drew this and I like it.
Apparently he and the little sushi guy are quite terrifying in doubles
Additionally, Dondozo’s signature attack, Order Up, will boost its stats if a Tatsugiri is in its mouth. Depending on the type of Tatsugiri, it’ll boost Dondozo’s Attack, Defense, or Speed.
Though, Order Up is a Dragon attack, and Dondozo is Water. Then again, that probably means Tera Dragon is a neat option for Dondozo.
And honestly, Tatsugiri being removed from battle for the duration kinda just means the opponent can only damage one of your guys at a time until Dondozo faints.
It also being based on the giant earthquake catfish is pretty neat aswell. Feel like its typing should be Water/Ground, Water/Dragon or Dragon/Ground instead of just plain water though.
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I always forget he exists. I'm the guy who always tries to hit that one with ground moves becuase I see the yellow coloring and immediately think Water/Electric like an idiot.
Unfortunately (or rather, thankfully), they have one key weakness that is absolutely everywhere on ladder right now
fear the bird...
But he also gets prankster Haze, which kinda shits all over the tatsuDonzo strat.
Don't get me wrong, it's still really good, but you gotta play around the crow very carefully otherwise you just get blown out
Double post, but I found this while looking for that tweet and it made me laugh
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if you're doing it right, not really. You should be defensive enough to not be oneshot, you're definitely not one-shotting them in the first round, so multiple turns will happen no matter what. Speed is a dump stat for most raid encounters.
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The resources spent to get Flutter Mane up were well worth it, got two Ability Patches that raid.
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I will say I wasn't expecting a decent chunk of my playtime to be devoted to mashing R while Paldean Wooper steamrolled the majority of Pokémon I came across effortlessly (lots of fairies around to poison).
I solo'd a 6-star Dark Annihilape easy peasy with my Iron Hands. Then I joined an online Ice Annihilape with the same Iron Hands and got absolutely destroyed by Close Combat. It was doing way more damage than it did in my solo raid
Looking at Annihilape, I guess it could have been Defiant and one of the other raiders ended up maxing its Attack by trying to Screech or something?
Holy shit it’s not often I see a GaoGaiGar reference 👌
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It’s possible I’m not really sure tbh. I think though that the npc mons do a lot of support work and don’t count against the timer
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I really want a male version with more of a FF dwarf inspired look though.
Like 90% of it is just beard with lil eyes sticking out.
Y'know... ground/fairy is something they haven't done yet. Call it Metrognome.
But then I saw someone have her final evo out in a raid and it changed everything. I was at a lvl point where I could skip straight to that final form and avoid the awkward stages, and she never left my party until I beat the game.
The ugly boy with a weird stick to hot girl with a giant hammer pipeline is real
Speaking of the bug gym...how about that Katy, huh?